Senior Director, Enterprise PMO

The Senior Director, Enterprise PMO serves as the enterprise leader responsible for establishing, governing, and continuously evolving the organization's project, program, and portfolio management capabilities. This role partners with executive leadership to translate strategic priorities into an integrated enterprise portfolio, ensuring disciplined execution, resource optimization, risk management, and measurable business outcomes. The Senior Director leads a team of PMO leaders, program managers, and portfolio professionals while driving enterprise standards, governance, reporting, and value realization practices. The role serves as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, providing transparency into strategic initiatives, portfolio performance, investment decisions, capacity planning, and organizational transformation efforts. This role is based in our Deerfield, IL office and is on‑site four days a week.

Leads the delivery of strategic business initiatives by coordinating teams that will define, manage and deliver results from significant programs. Implements Walgreens strategic vision through tactics, collaboration and leadership. Works with all functional areas to create focus, gain buy-in through influence, set priorities, develop work streams and guide complex work efforts to deliver against major program goals. Establishes and drives a company-wide portfolio management process to ensure consistency for prioritizing, monitoring and decision- making of corporate wide initiatives. Assists leadership team with holding one another accountable for results. Assists the executive team in creating value through initiatives by defining metrics and focusing on programs with most potential for value generation. Provides analysis and evaluation of business cases across the company to aide executive decision making and prioritization. Provides subject matter expertise and guidance regarding transformation-related decisions to executive team. Works with finance and operations to integrate program benefits and timing into financial and operational forecasts. Sets up and facilitates, engaging and effective governance forums that drive project objectives and mobilize teams. Oversees the planning, design and implementation of the Portfolio management process and tools within the PMO teams and works cross functionally and divisionally to support the organization, using tools to improve customer satisfaction, drive best practice and drive cost savings across the organization. Proposes compelling strategic narratives that help the organization focus on the activities that matter most, and understand which are near term, medium term, and long-term objectives. Narratives should be appropriate for both internal and external audiences. Leads the delivery of strategic business initiatives by coordinating teams that will define, manage and deliver results. Develops and mentors staff through on-boarding, open communication, training and development opportunities and performance management processes; builds and maintains employee morale and motivation; ensures the team is appropriately staffed with required competencies; fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace. About Walgreens Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

Bachelor’s degree and at least 8 years of experience in progressively more responsible strategy development and execution, project management, business development, consulting, or financial roles OR High School Diploma/GED and at